Texts Imply That Deflated Balls Were No Accident - And Tom Brady Knew

Congress is worried about cheaters. Look how they feel about steroids.

Ball deflators should be inquisitioned by Congress, too.

Wait for it, it will probably happen

I think the govt got involved with baseball was because anabolic steroid use without a prescription is illegal. That becomes DEA turf, but they'll probably only go after dealers or well-known athletic figures, not the muscleman at your local gym. In Barry Bond's case, the govt was pursing BALCO (https://en.wikipedia...ry_Co-operative) as an illegal supplier, and got in trouble for perjury in his testimony against them.

While deflating footballs is certainly unethical and against league rules, I don't think it's breaking any criminal laws. Now if it was discovered that Deflategate was linked to sports fixing, then you bet Congress would get involved.

Do we take away the records and the wins of teams who had guys on steroids? Ones who purposely injured players? Ones who filmed the other team's workouts?

> yes! it's a teams responsibility to ensure no cheating occurs. where do you draw the line at cheating? I say stop ALL of it.

What do we do about those guys though? Ray Lewis was not convicted of murder, but there is a lot of evidence that he was at the very least, involved in a cover up.

> you let the law decide, not the NFL

What about Michael Vick?

> he's a scumbag and should have been kicked out of the league for life. where do you draw the line?

What about morals clauses?

> these players are roll models for our youth, they should all have morals clauses and if they break them they get fired, you know, just like any other job you'd get fired at if you didn't do as you were supposed to.

Slap on the wrist; what about Kraft the owner, and Belechik the head coach...nothing. The NFL Commissioner is good friends with Kraft. The Saints coach was suspended for a whole season for his infraction.